Curious to hear if anyone saw a difference in resume responses after changing your first name to be less “foreign” or last name due to marriage.

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Not quite the same, but I’m adopted and have a German last name and I’m Chinese. Sometimes I think people are surprised when they meet me. Or don’t even realize it is me until I step forward/introduce myself

I have an African or middle eastern sounding first name. I tried that route midway through my career. Got maybe 25% of interest calls American name

I thought about this once. My first name is very foreign but my middle name is Anglo. I was thinking to see if it would make a difference in response rate, and then I thought to myself to hell with that. I’m not sacrificing who I am and giving up my name because someone doesn’t wanna learn how to pronounce it.

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